After letting Noah return to the house, Xavier called Shannon and told her to stop being a busybody. He seldom lectured her, and she was upset about it.
So, she told him about Yvette and Jeremiah to make things worse. “Xav, you might have lost your memories and sight, but you’re still a Lane. You can have any woman you want.
“A fickle woman like Yvette who’s interested in her own brother-in-law isn’t worthy of being part of our family at all. If it weren’t for the two…”
She stopped herself from mentioning the kids. After all, she hadn’t gotten to the bottom of it yet. So, it wouldn’t be wise for her to tell him about it.
“What have you heard?” Xavier narrowed his eyes.
Shannon’s heart skipped a beat, and she was clearly acting unnatural. “No one has to tell me anything about it. I’ve seen Yvette and Jerry being intimate with my own eyes.” Liars would tend to lie to themselves first.
Xavier tightened his grip on his phone until his knuckles turned white. “Don’t bring this up ever again.”
After saying that, he hung up the phone right away.
Shannon frowned as she looked at the ended call. Seeing how Xavier was still obsessed with Yvette after she had told him everything she knew, she wondered if he had been bewitched after the accident.
She thought it was a shame; the doctor had told her that it would be hard to cure Xavier’s amnesia. She figured he wouldn’t be like this at all if he could get back his memories.
Meanwhile, after Xavier ended the call, he was prepared to return inside. Suddenly, he heard someone calling him.
“Xav.”
He stopped in his tracks immediately.
Tristan had previously sent Daphne back to the asylum, but Jeremiah had saved her. Now, she was actually standing in front of Xavier again.
She was wearing a coat, and her hair was all over her shoulders. She looked pale and skinnier than ever.
“Xav…” Seeing that he had stopped walking, Daphne hurriedly approached him and grabbed his hand. However, right when she touched him, he swung her hand away. “Scram.”
Her hand froze in midair.
Xavier didn’t want to talk to her at all. Back then, she had pretended to be Yvette and said she was the one who had saved Shannon. That was why he had kept tolerating her. “Xav, I’m Daph. I’m the one you’ve truly liked. Do you really not remember me anymore?” she asked in a heartbroken tone, as though she were crying.
If Xavier hadn’t regained his
memories, he would’ve been tricked by her acting again. “From what I’ve heard from Mark, Daphne is just a lying bitch who has no morals. So, are you really Daphne?” he said slowly.
Daphne’s face fell immediately. “I… It was all just a misunderstanding. I never did any of those things before. Someone framed me…”
“Who sent you here?” He interrupted her. She realized that he was still smarter than everyone else despite being blind.
Xavier stopped asking her about it. After all, Yvette was still waiting for him to return home. If she saw Daphne was there, there would definitely be a misunderstanding again.
“Tell the person who told you to come to stop wasting their time.” After saying that, he walked past Daphne and left hurriedly. They split up without talking much at all. Jeremiah was watching as he sat in a car nearby, and his face fell drastically.
When Daphne returned to him with
her head down, he said softly yet fearsomely, “It looks like you’re not good at keeping your promises, Ms. Reyes. Do you think I should tel
Tristan that you’re still alon
QUMS
When she thought about the perverse Tristan, she anxiously shook her head. “Mr. Jeremiah, please give me another chance. I still have some ideas on how to make Yvette leave Xavier herself.” Jeremiah leaned against the window and looked toward Dewberry Manor. “Xavier clearly doesn’t love you. What else can you do to make Yvette leave him?”
“I just need a favor from you. I promise that Yvette will never accept Xavier again.”
Since they had grown up together, Daphne knew Yvette the best, and she knew how intolerable the latter could be. In the past, she had been able tomake Yvette bring up a divorce with Xavier by just editing some photos.